Clinical interventions in parent-infant groups around issues related to separation-individuation
✍ Scribed by Elaine Frank; Denise Rowe
- Book ID
- 102674778
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 752 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
Parent-child groups as an educational method in a general hospital setting provide support for parents and an environment in which they can discuss their questions about their child's development. This paper illustrates the clinical use of parent-child groups as a means of early intervention in problems that become apparent during the Separation-Individuation stages of development. We present two case studies of mother-child pairs, who have been members of the group for 2 years. The first case is a bi-racial child whose mother is struggling to deal with the child's rapprochement stage behavior. Through the oral and anal stages, conflict has grown in their relationship due to the mother's way of viewing her child, as well as her own unresolved adolescent separation difficulties. The second case is an overprotective mother whose own pathology prevented her daughter from resolving her rapprochement crisis. Interventions by the leaders as well as the group's educational method help both mother-child pairs to resolve interpersonal conflict and to continue their essentially normal development.